With the projects, again being published to the public rather than just a professor, I have learned to critique my own work, and therefore find the need to edit projects on my own rather than turning in a rough draft, receive feedback, and then fix accordingly. It is a little strange that it has taken me this long to try and look from a different person's perspective to edit my own work because before, I edited my essays through my own perspective, thus leaving more rooms for errors. However, with the idea that strangers can take a look at my project, I have greatly adjusted to the perspective of others in editing my project because once in a while, a part of the essay may make sense to me completely. However, when I would just stand back and try to see it from someone else's perspective, that part may make no sense to the audience who has either not seen the work nor has any understanding of the topic. In that sense, I would greatly reword the essay for the general public's benefit. Also, with my first hyper essay, I finished the project through my own point of view and thought it was great, clean, and concise. By getting other people's criticism that the website may look clean, but bland, I have greatly changed my method for the final hyper essay project and added significantly more visuals to the website so that it is engaging to the readers and more interactive.
Finally, I have learned, from this course, to break away from the traditional paragraph forms for the hyper essay projects. Though in a traditional English classroom setting, traditional paragraph forms with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion is the most pragmatic way in going about writing an essay, it isn't necessarily the case when creating a website. In order to engage the audience and keep them entertained to continue reading the website, sometimes a simple sentence can stand on its own and be much more powerful than a full body paragraph. With a compilations of these simple sentences or short body paragraphs, the public won't feel as tired to read and psychologically, it doesn't feel like they are reading a novel, just a fun and engaging website that still gives them the necessary information.
Through seeing examples of other people's websites and receiving constructive criticism, I have learned much more than I could have in any other traditional English class by being an active student in English 363.